Postal Asst Engineer Caught Red-Handed by CBI while Taking Bribe in Sambalpur

Sambalpur: A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) caught a Postal Assistant Engineer in the Sambalpur district for allegedly accepting bribe from a contractor.

The accused was identified as Subasish Pal. He was allegedly taking a bribe from a contractor named Debendra Puhan at the office of the postal superintendent when he was caught red-handed by the officials of the central agency.

The CBI officer in the case, Akshay Kumar Nanda, had been camping in Sambalpur for the past three days.

Earlier, based on the complaint lodged by the superintendent of the postal department, Sambalpur Town Police registered a case against six job aspirants. These job aspirants had furnished fake certificates for recruitment to posts in Sambalpur postal department.

Recently Sambalpur postal department had come up with an advertisement for recruitment for 96 posts. The candidates, against whom the complaint has been lodged, had furnished documents that showed that they had studied in Hindi medium board in Uttar Pradesh. But interestingly they mentioned that they had also studied Odia as a subject. This raised the suspicion of postal authorities and a police complaint was lodged against them.

An investigation is on to track down the users of fake certificates and the source from where they could procure the forged certificates of educational qualification.